Panel: Insurer Had No Duty To Indemnify Insured Based On Coverage Exclusion

(February 27, 2017, 12:40 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal district court did not err in determining that an insurer did not owe its insurer a duty of indemnification because the insured’s policy contained a provision exempting coverage for the claims sought and properly determined that the insurer owed its insured a duty to defend in an underlying negligence lawsuit, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb.15 in affirming (Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids v. Benjamin Evans, et al., Nos. 15-55869 and 15-55988, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 2681)....